Category: International

TUANGOO, MYANMAR: Myanmar’s junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war. Floods and landslides have killed almost 300 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which dumped a colossal deluge of rain when it hit the region last weekend. In Myanmar, more than 235,000 people have been forced from their homes by floods, the junta said Friday, piling further misery on…

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump said during his televised debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday that his Democratic rival had no economic plans of her own, and had copied President Joe Biden’s policies. “She doesn’t have a plan. She copied Biden’s plan, and it’s like four sentences… four sentences that are just, ‘Oh, we’ll try and lower taxes.’ She doesn’t have a plan,” he said during the prime-time showdown on ABC. Here are takeaways from the debate: Handshake Heading into the debate, there was a question as to how Harris…

Germany’s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement – the European Schengen zone – will start on September 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday. The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said,…

and Algeria have been drenched in floods By AFP September 09, 2024 Moroccan authorities on Sunday said four people died and 14 were missing in flooding caused by an “exceptional” climate phenomenon in southern areas, AFP reported. “Four people have died and 14 have gone missing” since heavy rains began on Friday in the province of Tata, some 740 kilometres south of Rabat, a local official told AFP, saying the toll could potentially rise. “Eight houses were washed away by floods in some valleys” near Tamanart, a rural area in the Tata region, said…

WASHINGTON: Vice President of the US and presidential candidate Kamala Harris seems to be taking notes from former president Donald Trump’s playbook by focusing on evoking emotions among the American voters rather than explaining policies during 2024 election campaign.  Since taking over from President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party’s ticket in July, Harris has had to run her campaign in fast-forward, with just months to go before the November election. With few exceptions she has avoided press conferences, interviews and lengthy discussions on policy. Instead, her…

Russian President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by honour guards and red carpets in the Mongolian capital on Tuesday on his first visit to an International Criminal Court (ICC) member since it issued a warrant for his arrest last year. Putin landed in Ulaanbaatar on Monday night at the start of a high-profile trip seen as a show of defiance against the court, Kyiv, the West and rights groups that have all called for him to be detained. He met Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh on Tuesday at Ulaanbaatar’s imposing Genghis Khan…

Germany’s far-right AfD Sunday achieved a historic win in the regional elections in Thuringia, according to exit polls, marking a significant setback for Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of the 2025 national elections.  The AfD garnered between 30.5% and 33.5% of the vote in Thuringia, while the conservative CDU came in second with approximately 24.5%.  In the neighboring state of Saxony, which also held regional elections on Sunday, the CDU led slightly, with the AfD trailing closely behind, as indicated by the polls. The AfD is unlikely to come to power…

United States border agents pulled over a produce-laden tractor-trailer only to find out that the watermelons loaded on it were actually bundles of methamphetamine worth $5 million worth wrapped in coloured paper.  Smugglers disguised more than 4,500 pounds (2,000 kilograms) of the addictive drug as melons, hid them amongst other cargo and tried to truck them across the border from Mexico.  The paper used to package meth was painted to look like the juicy fruit.  Border agents pulled over the produce-laden tractor-trailer at Otay Mesa in California on Friday and got…

KURRAM: Terrorists on Sunday attacked a police checkpost in Central Kurram, leaving one policeman martyred and injuring another, police told Geo News. The terrorist, according to  District Police Officer Ahmed Khan, set fire to the checkpost after the gun attack. The martyred policeman was identified as Qoowat Khan, while Constable Shahzad has been injured in the attack. He has been shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Sadda in Central Kurram for treatment. Funeral prayer of the martyred policeman has been offered in the wake of the attack. The region has witnessed multiple…